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Hacker News (Dec 2020)

  1. Morgan Stanley to Shift About $120B of Assets to Germany

    192 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  2. Why Programming Is Hard to Fundamentally Improve (2017)

    191 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  3. Run More Stuff in Docker

    191 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  4. Choose Boring Technology

    191 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  5. Vftool runs Linux virtual machines in macOS Big Sur

    191 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  6. U-2: The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace

    191 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  7. The Danish climate minister closing down the nation’s oil and gas industry

    191 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  8. Upcoming test: SpaceX Starship high-altitude flight

    190 points • comment • dec 07, 2020

  9. Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder

    190 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  10. MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Debt Bet

    190 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  11. Git Koans (2013)

    189 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  12. How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2

    189 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  13. Experimental drug reverses age-related memory and cognitive decline in mice

    189 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  14. I Regret Quitting Astrophysics

    189 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  15. New Orleans City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other

    189 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  16. They want us to be compliant, not secure

    189 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  17. GoDaddy employees told they were getting a holiday bonus in a phishing test

    188 points • comment • dec 24, 2020

  18. A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night

    188 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  19. The complexity of building a lie-down workstation

    188 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  20. Monads and GATs in Nightly Rust

    188 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  21. Build a tiny certificate authority for your homelab

    188 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  22. Vim Creep (2011)

    188 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  23. MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube

    188 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  24. Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019)

    187 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  25. No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings

    187 points • comment • dec 19, 2020

  26. Building my own HomeKit Thermostat

    187 points • comment • dec 27, 2020

  27. Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s

    187 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  28. Chef cofounder on CentOS: It’s time to open source everything

    187 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  29. India’s booming dark data economy

    187 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  30. SolarWinds’ shares drop 22 per cent. But what’s this? $286M in stock sales

    187 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  31. Telegram Voice Chats

    187 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  32. A Defer Mechanism for C

    186 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  33. An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM

    186 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  34. Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition

    186 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  35. State of Rust Survey 2020 results

    186 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  36. FYI: TripleByte is emailing old referrals

    186 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  37. A newly discovered body part changes our understanding of the brain (2016)

    185 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  38. Stan is a state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling

    185 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  39. Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week

    185 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  40. Building My Own Chess Engine

    185 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  41. Show HN: Make comic book layouts in the browser

    185 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  42. Nim in 2020: A Short Recap

    184 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  43. PayPal introduces new fee for dormant accounts

    184 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  44. “Odd Radio Circles” have astronomers excited

    184 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  45. Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

    183 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  46. REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better

    183 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  47. Lawyers automate this, so why don't airlines?

    183 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  48. The Future of RTS

    183 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  49. Decaying Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil as the Exxon Valdez

    183 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  50. Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed

    182 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  51. 3D printing boats is becoming standard practice

    182 points • comment • dec 21, 2020

  52. Octopus with transparent head caught by blackwater photographer

    182 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  53. Raspberry Pi PCIe Devices

    182 points • comment • dec 28, 2020

  54. Hardware-Accelerated TensorFlow and TensorFlow Addons for macOS 11.0

    181 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  55. To listen well, get curious

    181 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  56. Show HN: Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation

    181 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  57. Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more

    181 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  58. Vim³ – Vim rendered on a cube for no reason

    180 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  59. Graph Toy, an interactive graph visualizer using mathematical functions

    180 points • comment • dec 29, 2020

  60. Coinbase announces confidential submission of draft registration statement

    180 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  61. We need legal controls on web advertising

    179 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  62. Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

    179 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  63. Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out

    179 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  64. Autism and Invention Are Connected

    179 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  65. Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by starvation'

    178 points • comment • dec 26, 2020

  66. Zero to Emacs and Org-roam: a step-by-step guide on Windows 10

    178 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  67. Why software ends up complex

    178 points • comment • dec 13, 2020

  68. WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore

    178 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  69. The Cruise Ship Suicides

    177 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  70. A Brief Goodbye to CentOS

    177 points • comment • dec 09, 2020

  71. Do It Yourself Bookbinding

    177 points • comment • dec 17, 2020

  72. Imgdiff: Faster than the fastest pixel-by-pixel image difference tool

    177 points • comment • dec 12, 2020

  73. FCC orders phone companies to help trace illegal robocallers

    177 points • comment • dec 31, 2020

  74. The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space

    176 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  75. Trading Time for Money

    176 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  76. Cashew of Pirangi

    176 points • comment • dec 04, 2020

  77. Busybox-based Linux distro from scratch

    176 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  78. U.S. Judge Halts TikTok Ban

    176 points • comment • dec 08, 2020

  79. SolarWinds leaked FTP credentials through a public GitHub repo since 2018

    176 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  80. Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter

    176 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  81. Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (2017)

    176 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  82. When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet

    175 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  83. Winning back the Internet by building our own

    175 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  84. We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

    175 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  85. Some Git internals

    175 points • comment • dec 25, 2020

  86. Learn Quantum Computation

    175 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  87. Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against NSO

    175 points • comment • dec 22, 2020

  88. Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

    174 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  89. Managers, not workers, are losing jobs to AI and robots: study

    174 points • comment • dec 02, 2020

  90. Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital (again)

    174 points • comment • dec 06, 2020

  91. Rust 2021 Roadmap

    174 points • comment • dec 18, 2020

  92. Web Authentication Methods Compared

    174 points • comment • dec 23, 2020

  93. Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads

    174 points • comment • dec 15, 2020

  94. GnuCOBOL 3.1.1

    173 points • comment • dec 11, 2020

  95. Weather Service faces bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

    173 points • comment • dec 10, 2020

  96. Getting started with C

    173 points • comment • dec 16, 2020

  97. AWS just went multi-cloud

    173 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  98. I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog (2017)

    173 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  99. Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash

    173 points • comment • dec 14, 2020

  100. Cakelisp: A Programming Language for Games

    173 points • comment • dec 21, 2020